Overview
- Magistrate Nuria Ruiz Tobarra set a three‑day deadline for À Punt to deliver all images and sound from the 29 October 2024 Cecopi meeting and made the same demand of the Emergencies department and its contracted producer.
- The orders stress the recordings’ relevance to reconstructing the timing, content, and decision‑making around the Es‑Alert and to identify any participants not formally under investigation in a disaster that left 229 dead.
- The judge noted that RTVE’s published footage already contradicted sworn testimony and was captured in a setting where journalists could hear instructions, supporting its incorporation into the case.
- À Punt had withheld audio citing professional secrecy and described its material as mute footage, but the judge ruled that recordings held by a public entity must be made available to the criminal investigation.
- In a subsequent ruling, the judge declined to treat À Punt’s letter as a voluntary offer, demanded ADIF’s full report on rail suspensions within five days, and instructed the civil registration of the fetus carried by a flood victim.